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C. .W. SMITH.

Cooking Stove.

Patented July 21, 1868.

CHARLES W. sun-Bios HORNELLSVILLE, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No; 80,230, dated July 21, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT GOOKING-STOVES.

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To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCEiRNQ Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SMITH, ofHornellsville, in the county of Steuben, in the State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in: 8. Combination for.Wood or Coal-Burning Cook- Stoves; and the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, inwhichl AFigure 1 represents a plan or top view of the cook-stove.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing the two arrangementsof the fire-boxes. for wood orLcoal, for the convenience of summer andwinter cooking. V I t The object of my invention is to provide in acook-stove all of the requisite means for much or little lire, to beused for cooking purposes, so that inthe winter, when all the heatisdesirable for warming the room, a large coal fire can be made in thecylinder, and in the summer, when it is desirable to do the cooking, andhave as little'heat as possible, a fire of light dry wood can be builtin. the fire-box at the other end of the stove, and be i brought to hearmore closely with the cooking-utensils and the oven, so thatcomparatively buts-small amount of heat will be radiated into the room.l i i My invention consists in providing a shallow square fire-box inone end of acook stove, with aspace under-' neath, which may be used fordrying small wood, chips, or any other thing suitable for a quick summerfire, and having a large flat heating-top extending over a cylindricalcoal-burning'fire-box in the other end, with a coal'sifter uhderneaththe grate,'and ash-drawer sothat the fine coal is separated from theashes and replaced in the cylinder without being taken away from thestove. I

That others may be enabled to make and use my improved combinationcook-stove, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings,and-to the letters marked thereon. a I Z,

l The base, A, is along flat-plate casting ofany size'de'sirable,snpportedat or near each corner on legs B B, having at one end asunkenbottom-Q, in which is fitted a coal-sifter, b, with a handle, 0,extending out on one side for operating it. Underneath the'coal-sifteris drawer, D,'to receive the ashes, and remove them.

In the base-plate A, at one end, is a circularop enin'g, d, over thecoalsitter, on which is placed a large cylindrical coal-fire box, E,wit-h a grate, e, in the "usual manner. At the other end of thebase-plate A, is placed the wood-fire box F, with a door,-f,in theendfor putting in long wood; the fire-box F being shallow only aboutone-half of the depth of the cylinder E. The bottom plate g, forming thehearth of the wood-fire box,';is elevated on arches h It, leavingaconsiderable space,G, between it and the base-plate A, in whichkindling-woo'd; or anything may be put to dry, or be kept off the floorout of the way. p i I Above and resting on the top of both the wood-fireboss F, and the cylindrical coal-firebox E, is the long e l fiat portionor box H H, which makes the top of thestove for both fires,-and coversover the surface of the baseplate A, so as to leave a large spacebetween the plate and the top portion of the stove 'around and betweenthe cylinder E and box F, to place things on for keeping warm. The topof the stove, H H, may have any desired number of holes, II I.I,withlids, bothin the region of-the coal and wood fireplaces for bciilere, orhettles,&c. i

The top portion of the stove H H being divided into three compartments,across between the two fire-boxes, with openings in the divisions to beclosed by hinged dampers J J, as required, over the central compartmentL is the elevated arched olven K, with doors in each end, also holes, IZ Z, for cleaning around the oven, on the top of which is the socket isfor the stove-pipe, so that, by'clo'sing one of the dampers, eitherfire-box may be shut ofi from communicating'with the oven, or, byopening both of the dampers, both fire-boxes are in communication. Thedampers also serve -the purpose of regulating'thc draught inboth ofthefire-boxes by clo'sing or partly closing one or the other as desired.i

7 Thus it will be'seen that all of the requisites necessary for apractical summer and winter cooking-stove are combined in one, as alsothe other great conveniences of sifting the ashes from the finecoal'before taken from the stove,'and places for drying andkeeping fuel for aspeedy use, and warming-thing's generally in win erg;

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The base A, cylinder coal-fire box E atone end, and a. wood-fire box, F,elevated on arches; h h at the other, as eonstructed and arranged, incombination with the top H H, dampers J J, and oven K, operating in themanner as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name in the presence of-CHARLES W. SMITH.

Witnesses:

J. W. NEAR, Wu. H. INGSTRUM.

